What do have nylon stockings, a trampoline and hair gel in common?

What's a Tool?

Stefanie Feiertag

In this project, a series of self-selected tools, materials, and performative experiments were used to generate visual outcomes. The exploration combined digital and analog processes and evolved through the following stages:

Balancing on self-made slippers placed on rolls to create a self-portrait through movement and instability.

Cutting, stretching, and manipulating nylon fabric to create letterforms while investigating the cultural history of nylon stockings as objects of desire and fascination.

Producing ten “jumping numbers” on a trampoline within a seven-minute time limit, with the support of a friend a former competitive trampoline athlete.

Designing an invitation for a water-slide party using blue hair gel and inflatable objects as visual and material references.

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A project made in the course

What’s a Tool?

Does the tool change the hand that uses it? Students explored several tools to build design projects, documenting their process with vertical video. Each video shows one tool’s arc: from idea finding to experiment, design, and explanation. Creative tools shape what we create.
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